The phenomenology of information systems evaluation: Overcoming the subject/object dualism

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 110, Issue , 2003, Pages 155-175

  Introna, Lucas D ^a   Whittaker, Louise ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cognition; Dualisms; IS evaluation; Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COSTS AND BENEFITS; DUALISMS; HEIDEGGER; IS EVALUATIONS; PHENOMENOLOGY; POLITICAL DIMENSIONS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84904344870     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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